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John Milton and John Donne's Metaphysical Poetry

In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...

Rimbaud and Verlaine as Symbolist Poets

In six pages this paper analyzes Rimbaud's 'The Sleeper in the Valley' and Verlaine's 'The Art of Poetry' in terms of how each rep...

'The Performance' by James Dickey

In six pages an explication of this poem by James Dickey is presented including the poet's title selection. Two sources are cited...

A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this research paper analyzes the arguments regarding poetry's value the Romantic poet makes including his observatio...

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface

time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

Irony in 'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Differences in Silence in Poetry of the East and West

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

Sensory Imagery in 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost

In eight pages this research paper analyzes 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost with the focus being on the poet's use of sensory imagery. ...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

Omeros by Derek Walcott and Character Identity

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

Art is Imitating Life in Thomas Hardy's Poetry

awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

How the Poetic Works of Robert Frost Reflect the Poet's Life

years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....

'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace

In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...

Poetry of John Keats and Lawlessness

In eight pages this paper examines how lawlessness is thematically expressed by John Keats in his 'Robin Hood' poem and how this ...

Loss of Light and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In four pages this paper argues that the poet's uses of 'light' involve loss of life in terms of the fighting for life and grief o...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill' and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's employment of imagery and the reasons for its complexity. Two sources ...

Children and Parents in British Society and Songs of Innocence by William Blake

In five pages this paper considers how children with parents and without are compared in the social commentary featured in this co...